** ** In this note, I report observations taken while experiencing for the first time the pheromone product ‘Turn up the Heat’ in bottle-spray. I am aged 36, 5.9 feet, 120 pounds, male, living in Holland, the Netherlands. According to others, I have a bold character, positive attitude in life and strong social skills. By my professional activity, I have developed particular aptitude for reasoning rationally. And, to counterbalance this in my personal life, I have developed a funny, comic side. According to the Jung-Myers-Briggs test, my personality is moderately extravert, thinking, judging and very slightly sensing. In the Kersey equivalent, I correspond to the guardian-supervisor type of personality.
When I decided to use the hormonal spray, I was already meeting several women per month, in search for a stable, long-term relationship. I was at ease to engage conversations with women, to make them laugh and, if the interaction was sound, to pick up their phone number for follow up to a date. This hormonal spray, I thought, would be an addition to this arsenal. I had shopped on-line for several products and made my choice on that one for the company’s engagement into experimenting. Finally I discovered PheroTalk while browsing for Androtics Pheromone Research’s products. I promise myself to come back later with a field report. Here are the observations I have noted down.
The first times I used the product was during three consecutive evenings. I sprayed the hormones with five sprays each time: three on my neck and head, and two on my wrists. Keeping an eye on my watch, I noted a significant increase in sensations approximately twenty to thirty minutes after the first sprays and a constant flood of sensations for approximately three hours, with a decreasing intensity at the end. The first time, I added up two additional sprays after three hours, for a total approximate effect of five hours. I did not experience any disagreeable sensation from neither psychological nor physical point of view.
The first effect is a change in self perception. I was smiling, for no reason, like naïve. This feeling of joy was smooth and not too much as laughing like an idiot. Moreover I feel trust in myself, full of confidence: there was no problem in the world to bother my consciousness. As the product started to have an effect, I was progressively feeling more and more detached from reality, without going up to the point of having hallucination. This first effect was the most surprising one, because I expected the hormones to act on others—I forgot that it could also first and foremost act on me. During the two other experiments, I was more prepared for the psychological transformation.
The second effect relates to the body. I noted that I was more prompt to collaboration by engaging conversation with other people around me or by standing physically in an open body posture. I tended to stand firm on my two legs, my back right and my arms loosely along my body. My eyes were constantly seeking for other’s eyesight, especially those of women, and I was maintaining the look straight in the eyes longer than usual. I was, in every instance, the last to quit the look. For example, I had a eye-to-eye contact that lasted approximately ten seconds and lead to an intense interaction with a woman. In public spaces, I was more easily entering in circles that people do unconsciously create to include or exclude others. I was having a semi-dominant attitude by making the space my territory, without excluding jealously other from coming.
The third effect touched upon reason. I lost my reason, I noted, because I had difficulty to compute and to think logically. When I engaged conversations, I tended not to give a direct answer to a factual question; instead, I was having fun with the question itself. I had the impression that my funny side has been amplified, decupled threefold by the hormones. I also diminished the judgment that I usually make on anybody (on the clothing, habits and way of talking). With women, I had also another attitude: I was less exclusive in the women I was going to talk to, by being less impressed by their physical appearance; I engaged several spontaneous conversations with women to make my selection on the feeling of attraction created by the interaction.
The fourth effect, the effect on others, was more difficult to observe. If I could take note on the things I was experiencing, I did not asked any question to other people I was with during the three nights of experiment. It seems that the others were affected, not by the diffusion of hormones in the air, but by sensing my behavior. The non-dominant males come to me to be sure that they would not be threatened by me, that I would remain friendly. And when I was approaching women, I could feel more accurately their feelings, if they were nervous, confident, interested or attracted. In other words, the product augmented my faculty of sensing, which is not that much developed in my personality. It was like having military radar for women’s feelings.
I hope that this small note can be useful. Further reports due later on with other experiences and products.
